Sorry for not seeing this earlier. Work was hell today.

Your correct. This isn’t racism. I’m reinstating your comment now.

Your splitting hairs at this point.

My point was without SOMETHING to track clicks, you… Don’t.

Put perfectly. Had I not been on mobile…I would have written it just as lazily as I did.

Thanks for taking the time.

I’m going to educate you on what this is actually about.

You think it’s about tracking someone as they go about the web.

The article is about BLUE SKY tracking the links you click on their site. Two totally different things.

The destination logs the IP. The source doesn’t see the click, because it happens in your client, not in their site.

Source: managed tens of thousands of sites and hundreds of thousands of servers for over 25 years.

No.

You can see a link was loaded in the page. Link tracking is still needed to know if the link was clicked.

It can be an “on click” JavaScript event, or a redirect to a tracking site.

You’re 100% correct that a 15-day ban was too much. For some reason I had thought that wasn’t your first ban in news. Vegan and news have similar icons (based on colors and a quick glance). I apologize for that, and unbanned you a day ago.

You hit it on the head. We weren’t aware of this user, as we had 0 reports about them until today.

By the time we received complaints about your comments, the user in question (cat) had already deleted their account.

I don’t have time to track down every post of theirs to check for sources. We tend to do that when people report posts.

The post that was reported that was submitted by cat was this one:

https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/25907073

Nothing wrong with that post. The reason given in the report:

WTF is this power user stuff? That's a lot of freaking posts in less than a month

Again, prolific posting isn’t against any rule. The post didn’t break any rule. Why would I remove that?

Now, on to the reason I gave a temp ban.

Comment:

What the actual fuck? My entire goddamn feed is this one account…

Attacking the user for posting? You may not like them, but again, we only received one report on that user. Apparently their content, while aggressive, broke no rules, and upset nobody until today, according to my reports and mod logs.

Next:

Touch grass. Good lord. You’re carpet bombing multiple communities with repeats of the same crap.

Another personal attack against the user.

Next:

I’m not blocking an account that could easily pivot and start blasting multiple communities spanning multiple instances with subversive information.

Much better to bring awareness to such ridiculousness. The motives of an account with such activity should be questioned. ESPECIALLY since all posts are in news and politics communities.

Another person attacking them for posting. Do we attack Flying Squid, Admiral Picard, MicroWave, or others for contributing more than other users? Again, they broke no rules, and we received our first complaint about that account today.

There were a lot of people attacking that user, and a lot of reports on the comments attacking that user. Those are just a few examples.

Yes, I moderate, but I have a ton more going on in my life, so I’m not always on Lemmy to see what’s happening, and I do rely heavily on reports to find points of pain in the communities I moderate. I also rely heavily on the rest of the moderation team, as well the great tools that people like @[email protected] make.

If you go through the posts in this community, you’ll see tons of places where I personally have worked with other users who had complaints. We try to be fair, but attacking users is a violation of our community rules.

Caught me on my lunch break, and this is a community I love lurking in.

Fair point. I’ll restore the comments and remove the ban

I was the one that submitted the ban, after a number of reports. On the face of it (I am at work, so don’t always have time to deep dive), The reports did seem to align with trolling.

I had/have no idea what’s going on withe the Jordan Lund thing.

I watch this at least once a year!

Jury nullification is one way to overturn unfair laws.

If a bunch of juries refuse to play ball, prosecutors will stop trying the cases. They think convictions are the only way to win reelection.

I’m an advocate for homeless people. I 100% support jury nullification.

Locking. About 50 reports. I’m a volunteer, and don’t have enough time for this.

Class traitor?

For upholding the rules equally?

I don’t like rich people, but glorifying murder is still glorifying murder.

Fuck off.

Do mean when we removed things that advocated violence? Do you honestly think it’s related to the persons job/wealth? We do that for any instances of people advocating violence that we see or are reported. All those were reported, numerous times.

Ah, so because I don’t mind steam, I’m a shill?

You got nothing better to do than follow me around? If not, have fun.

huh?

Last post was locked due to a ton of people advocating violence.

Let’s not repeat that, please.